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HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN

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Deep Purple delivered yet another impressive performance in Copenhagen – reeking of the pure joy of playing good music for good people

DEEP PURPLE, Falconér Salen Copenhagen, 11. februar

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All right then; my deepest – as in DEEPEST – respect for Deep Purple in 2014.

Firstly you rarely experience a band four and a half decade into their career delivering with such pure joy of both music and life.

Secondly you have to tip your critic's hat to the fact that Deep Purple never just depends on their catalogue of classics. On the contrary they insist on also challenging both themselves and the audience with a bunch of songs from last year's excellent "Now What?!" album.

There's already an abundance of so-called "classic rock" bands who tour the carnivals and marketplaces, gradually playing themselves into oblivion via "the hits that once were".

Thank God, Deep Purple ain't one of them.

It may well be that the old boys these days are about as intense as the average garden party. It would however be completely foolish and unfair to demand the same intense necessity in their playing as forty years ago.

And it doesn't matter anyway.

At Falconér we bore witness to an entirely different kind of necessity. Namely the necessity of playing good music for good people – and that obviously meant both the band and the audience.

Rarely have I witnessed such obvious proof that English dentists ain't quite as bad as they're rumoured to  be. Thanks to the permanent exibition of shining teeth (as in smiles, factfreaks) on stage.

From opening song "Après Vous" and during the next couple of hours this was a musical playground with the audience trying to match the band for constant smiling as we witnessed Deep Purples deliverance of playfulness and pure joy.

I wouldn't have been surprised if they'd added "Happy Days Are Here Again" to the setlist.

Setliste
Après Vous
Into The Fire
Hard Lovin’ Man
Strange Kind Of Woman,
Vincent Price,
Contact Lost
Guitar solo
Uncommon Man,
The Well Dressed Guitar
The Mule
Above And Beyond
Lazy
Hell To Pay
Keyboard solo
Perfect Strangers
Space Truckin’
Smoke On The Water

Ekstra
Hush
Black Night

They didn't though.

But happy days truly arrived nevertheless simultanously with fourth song "Strange Kind Of Woman" – powered by one Ian Paice, king of the mean shuffle and truly one of the finest drummers to ever grace a rockstage.

From then on it was good and then it got better as Purple supplied proof that new songs like "Contact Lost", "Uncommon Man" and "Hell To Pay" can hold their own against the classics. And then there was solo upon solo upon solo but it never got boring thanks to Purple's finest trademark: Their musical telepathy.

The level of musicianship in this band allows them to let the music guide the band rather than the other way around (think about it).

Because of that even the most overplayed classics are revigorated. For chrissakes I not only put up with yet another "Smoke On The Water". I even enjoyed it!

Call Deep Purple "dinosaur rock" if you must, but weren't dinosaurs both majestic and aweinspiring creatures?

Just like Deep Purple is ...

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